La dyade mère-fille est traversée par quelque chose tenant de l’ordre du désir et du sexuel. L’idée d’un même, d’un identique rapprochant la mère et la fille ainsi que la notion de répétition qui englobe certaines de leurs relations dans un contexte de violence sexuelle intrafamiliale nous interpellent dans notre pratique en tant que clinicienne. A partir de l’apport des travaux de Sigmund Freud et de ceux de Jacques Lacan – particulièrement sur le ravage concernant ce dernier – nous souhaitons savoir quelle place peuvent subjectivement occuper les filles du point de vue de leurs mères quand ces dernières sont elles-mêmes issues de familles à transactions violentes et/ou incestueuses? Dans ces situations, nous nous interrogeons et nous penchons sur la nature de ce qui est transmis entre mère et fille. Nous ne faisons pas simplement référence à l’inceste père-fille, nous nous employons à observer aussi d'autres formes d'inceste impliquant d'autres personnes de l'entourage ainsi que ce qui est appelé l’inceste de deuxième type (selon Françoise Héritier) et l’incestuel (comme décrit par Paul-Claude Racamier). Ainsi, cette étude prend en compte ce qu’il y a derrière la confusion des rôles, des générations et de « langue » entre mère et fille dans le contexte d’inceste. Notre recherche s’articule dans le champ de l'anthropologie psychanalytique, tel qu’il est développé par Paul-Laurent Assoun et Markos Zafiropoulos (2002), qui prend en compte l'Autre social pour comprendre le sujet de l'inconscient chez Freud et Lacan. Aussi, la relation mère-fille et ses résonances sur les plans social, symbolique et psychique, ainsi que la question de l’inceste et de l'incestuel seront les fils conducteurs de notre travail. Nous proposons de parcourir la relation mère-fille dans un contexte incestuel avec ou sans passage à l’acte à travers la clinique psychanalytique en nous appuyant sur des études de cas. L’ambivalence entre l’amour et la haine, déjà présente « naturellement » dans la relation mère-fille, s’amplifie dans le contexte d’inceste. Nous tentons d’analyser en profondeur les racines de la mise en acte violente des mères lorsqu'elles « échouent » dans leur fonction protéctrice, perturbant le lien mère-fille d’une manière encore plus ravageante en reprenant ce terme au sens lacanien du mot ravage. Ces circonstances où la mère et la fille sont dans une véritable impasse témoignent d'un lien d’emprise qui nous amène à nous interroger sur le travail de transmission entre elles. / The mother-daughter dyad is crossed by something from the order of the desire and sexuality. The notion of a double, an equal, a repetition that encompasses some relationships between mothers and daughters in a context of intra-familial sexual violence is one question that challenges us in our clinical practice. From what Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan teach us - the latter specially about the devastation - we ask ourselves what is the place that daughters occupy in the subjectivity of mothers from families with history of incest ? What will be passed from mother to daughter ? We do not refer only to the father-daughter incest, but also to other forms of incest, involving others in the family circle, as well to what we call incest of second type (according to Françoise Héritier) and the incestual (as descibed by Paul-Claude Racamier). Thus, our research deliberates on what is behind the confusion of roles, generations and « language » between mother and daughter in the incest’s domain. The work is linked to the field of psychoanalytic anthropology as developed by Paul-Laurent Assoun and Markos Zafiropoulos (2002) which approaches the social Other to undestand the unconsciouns subject in Freud and Lacan’s theory. The mother-daughter relationship and its resonance in the social, symbolic and psychic arenas, in conjunction with the question of the incest and the incestual are the core os this work. We propose to investigate the mother-daughter relationship in a incestuous context with or without passage to the act through psychoanalytical reference supported by clinical case studies. The ambivalence between love and hate, which is « naturally » present in the mother-daughter relationship, is amplified in the incest situation. We try to analyze in depth the roots of violent action when mothers « fail » in their protective role, disturbing the mother-daughter relationship in an even more devastating way, as per the Lacanian term devastation. These circumstances in which mother and daughter are in a profound impasse reveal a relationship of domination and make us question how the transmission works between them.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This study explored the perspectives of Black mothers and daughters as they contemplated how two institutions ---schools and prisons/jails -- influenced their relationship with one another. As the incarceration rates for Black females increase in the U.S., examinations of these perspectives can produce insights about the impacts of schools and jails/prisons on the lives of these girls and women, and more pointedly, about the perceived contributions of racist and misogynistic forces on the Black mother-Black daughter relationship. Three pairs of mother-daughter dyads were selected and interviewed for the study. The daughters were Black middle school-aged girls between the ages 10 and 14, and the mothers were of varying ages. Two specific research questions centered on: (1) the participants’ perceptions of how these institutions have had an influence mother and daughter relationships, and (2) how they dealt with problems they faced either separately or together that were associated with school (for both participants in the dyad) and/or that resulted from the jail/prison experience (for the mother). Interviews were analyzed using phenomenological research methods and metaanalyzed from a critical feminist framework. Findings show that both mother and daughter have been resourceful in maintaining strong ties despite the array of forces that challenged these unions. Participants from both sides of these mothers and daughters dyads expressed how mothers’ parenting styles, lifestyle decisions, and self-perceptions were effected by the institutions of schooling and criminal justice. Although the findings of the study offered a glimpse of participants’ perspectives on racism and sexism as forces that influenced their experiences, the relationship issues between them were most prevalent. Further research is recommended to uncover more of the intricacies of sexism and racism as they relate to relationships and personal issues of Black, formerly incarcerated mothers and their pre-teen and teenaged daughters.

This study is focused on the relationship between mothers and their daughters, and the ways in which this relationship serves as a critical site from which black women (specifically from rural Venda area in Northern South Africa) construct their identities. Within the broad framework of qualitative research, this investigation employs a hybrid theoretical model rooted in black feminist epistemology incorporating standpoint feminism, feminist social constructionism, and intersectionality theory. The study draws on 18 interviews with mothers and daughters aged between 35-55 and 18-25 respectively. Using thematic narrative analysis, various themes, i.e. perceptions of femininity, intersectional nodes of femininity, and tensions between normative and counter normative constructions of femininity are explored to showcase shifts and changes in gendered narratives of femininity. The research finds that the multiple and varied ways in which identity is constructed is a complex relational process mediated by various social factors such as class, gender and location; and are consistent with the traditional conception of women as respectful, resilient, „silent‟, and nurturing. Furthermore, findings showed that most mothers played an active role in enforcing patriarchal ideologies of femininity, whereas most daughters actively challenged traditional conceptions of femininity to construct an empowered sense of femininity drawing from their mother‟s own lived experiences. The study further illustrates that the critical triangle of the self, motherhood and social location is a messy one that demands complex and dynamic understanding. This highlighted the need to use socio-cultural and socio-economic frameworks to investigate the multi-layered, complex process of femininity construction for women in rural areas, and how mothers and daughters in interaction with each other can become agents of social change in relation to gender relations. / Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2020. / DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development / Sociology / MSocSci / Unrestricted

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In Dunnet Landing, Jewett creates a feminine world that is characterized by its depth and its moral and emotional significance. There is a foundation in the real world of human feeling, and while there is much grief and sorrow in this community, there are also possibilities for happiness. The connection to death and loss is what gives much in this feminine world meaning. Grief is only a part of the journey. Out of death and sorrow come strength and a restoration to wholeness. Mrs. Todd has learned this and she passes her knowledge down to the narrator. The narrator’s journey is a return to a simpler, older way of life. It is a return to the mother, but it is also a return to self, an inversion of a trip to the frontier. The narrator’s connection to Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Blackett helps her to reconnect with and restore herself.

Readers of Harriette Simpson Arnow’s most well-loved novel The Dollmaker had to wait sixteen years for her next work, The Weedkiller’s Daughter (1970). Clearly, the book was no quick cash-in. By the time Arnow was in her fourth decade of writing, the literary landscape had changed radically. The reviews for The Weedkiller’s Daughter reflect this shift. While many reviews of this contemporary account of a daydreaming teenage girl’s life in suburban Michigan praised Arnow’s sensitivity in portraying adolescents, a vocal minority took Arnow to task for the book’s anachronisms in post-Woodstock America. One review attacked the main character for being a “dull little frump.” Another snidely recommended the novel to “a few middle-aged virgins in Nebraska.” It would be grossly misstating the facts to claim that the mixed reception of The Weedkiller’s Daughter alone drove Arnow to write history and historical fiction subsequently. But one cannot ignore the fact that Arnow shunned the writing of contemporary fiction after 1970. Arguably, her choice to compartmentalize her rural Kentucky past from her suburban Michigan present cost her readers. This paper presentation is based on my own work with the Arnow Collection at the University of Kentucky’s Special Collections, both as an assistant archivist and as a researcher-scholar. I conclude from studying manuscripts and reviews of the novel that Arnow was unfairly pigeonholed as a regionalist writer, charged with writing barely fictionalized social commentary, when The Weedkiller’s Daughter was created as a reimagining, rather than a recapitulation, of themes found in The Dollmaker.

These studies deal with lifetime profit analyses for individual cows, and using these estimates to determine the economic value of genetic changes in traits for which genetic evaluations (predicted transmitting ability, PTA) are currently available. Data were collected from six states processed by Dairy Records Management Systems (DRMS) from herds on continuous test for at least 10 yr. The purpose of the first study was to determine how well estimators of lifetime net income based on 305-d lactation yields and a 10-yr opportunity (RNI305.10) and based on complete lactation data but a 5-yr opportunity (RNIc.5) predict the estimate based on complete lactations and a 10-yr opportunity (RNIc.10). Records for 22,854 cows in Virginia herds born in 1988, 1990, and 1992 from the DRMS in Raleigh, NC were used. Each RNI was calculated using fluid (skim/fat) pricing and milk-fat-protein pricing. Regression analyses including herd and birth year were used in the model to estimate the regression of RNIc.10 on RNIc.5, and RNIc.10 on RNI305.10. The resulting regression coefficients for fluid (skim/fat) pricing were $1.53 and $1.12 explaining 67 and 97% of the variation of RNIc.10, respectively. The corresponding results for milk-fat-protein pricing were $1.52 and $1.14 explaining 68 and 96% of the variation of RNIc.10, respectively. Using RNIc.10 as the measure to estimate lifetime profit is strongly recommended over the two alternatives tested. In the second study, the economic impacts of a unit change in PTA of daughter pregnancy rate (DPR) and other PTA in the merit indexes on lifetime profit estimates of a bull's daughters were estimated to determine an economic weight for the PTADPR and other PTA in economic indexes. Records for 71,094 cows born in 1988, 1990, and 1992 from six states processed at DRMS were used: Florida [10,940 cows], Indiana [8,231 cows], North Carolina [12,280 cows], Texas [4,786 cows], Virginia [20,341 cows], and Vermont [14,516 cows]. The basic RNI function consisted of [total milk, fat, and protein income ?feed cost for production] (yield income, YI) + [net value of calves + net salvage value] (non yield income, NYI) ?rearing cost (RC) ?[(daily cost for labor, maintenance feed, supplies, and fixed expenses) x days in herd] (daily cost, DC). Some of the economic impacts of PTA described for the merit indexes were not included in the basic RNI. These were added to RNI by multiplying the respective sire PTA by the economic impact. These included -165*PTASCS (M); 33*udder composite + 15*feet and legs composite -14.86*body size composite (T); and 8.064*PTA for daughter pregnancy rate -4.80*PTA for daughter calving ease (PRCE). Each ARNI was calculated using all production records initiated prior to the cow's tenth birthday with three milk pricing systems comparable to the prices in USDA three merit indexes: fluid (skim/fat) pricing (FARNI), milk-fat-protein pricing (NMARNI), and cheese pricing (CARNI). Two levels of prices for rearing cost per day and daily cost were used for calculating FARNI, NMARNI, and CARNI. Regression analyses including herd and birth year in the model were used to estimate the simple and partial regressions of ARNI or partitioned ARNI on sire PTA. Partial regression included all PTA in Net Merit, except service sire calving ease. Ignoring other PTA, one unit increase in PTADPR increased 476.25kg of lifetime total milk or 18 days of total DIM. One unit decrease in PTASCS increased 4372.50kg of lifetime total milk. With low daily and rearing costs, each 1% change in PTADPR increased ARNI by $59.31 to $55.82 depending on the milk pricing systems. The corresponding results with high daily and rearing costs were $27.50 to $24.01. Standardized multiple regression enabled the comparison of the economic weights of this study with those of USDA. The PTA for productive life (PL) in all three USDA merit index was emphasized less than the results from this study; however, PTADPR in USDA indexes was emphasized more than this study. In this study, the economic weight of PTADPR was negative within the low daily and rearing costs, but it was positive in the high daily and rearing costs. / Master of Science

The bond between a mother and child is thought to be sacred. It is a phenomenon that society seems to expect as axiomatic based on the single biological fact that a woman carries her child, creating an inseparable bond; even for non-biological mothers, the bond is perceived as one of supreme importance. What happens to the mother and to the child, if this sacred bond is broken? The intent of this thesis was to focus on the perceived bond between mother and child and turn it on its head. As a work of fiction, Pretend Land is a series of interrelated short stories about a young woman named Dalia and her issues of abandonment and consequent coping mechanisms. My goal was to explore the effects of mother/child separation through the vehicle of storytelling and create a tale that would allow an honest narrative, not to prove one thing or another, but to finally bring a story to the forefront about an absent mother and the child she left behind.

Recent biomedical advancements, cultural practices, and individual preferences have altered the ways in which biological process such as menstruation are perceived and managed. Increasingly, women are interested in suppressing menstruation to alleviate its negative symptoms, including bloating, menstrual cramps, fatigue, and irritability. This topic is especially relevant for adolescent girls, as mothers and daughters might have to negotiate attitudes towards daughters’ menstrual suppression. Therefore this study aims to examine how this topic is discussed and understood within the mother-daughter dyad. It is also important to consider how these attitudes are shaped by cultural background, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and religion. Through this knowledge health care providers can have a more holistic understanding of how their patients’ view menstruation. If health care providers know these basic demographics and the perspectives on this issue, they can be better prepared in administering information and educating their patients. My data collection included literature review, a five category survey, and participant observation in a clinical setting. There were 72 mother-daughter pairs with a total of 144 participants that completed designated surveys for mothers and daughters that had a total of five categories emphasizing participant details, menstrual cycle, reproductive health history, attitudes towards their period and menstrual suppression. Through the experiences of my participants I have found that there is a great desire to learn more of menstrual suppression among both mothers and daughters and that there is some degree of influence of religion and ethnicity on perceptions of menstrual suppression in this population. Age on the other hand, turned out to not be an important factor shaping the positive or negative attitudes toward suppression.

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